From: ahk@chinet.com

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>The Amk station is located at 2702 West Washington Street.

>Would anyone know if this is the same building that once served the
>South Shore Line before that line was re-routed to the airport?  Tx.

The station was built in the early '70's by CSS&SB at the very east end
of its private right-of-way at Bendix, an industrial park to serve both
CSS&SB and passenger trains on the adjacent ex-New York Central. CSS&SB
had stopped running on streets into downtown South Bend in the early
'70's. Around the same time, Penn Central abandoned the 1928 New York
Central station in downtown South Bend, so you have the weird situation
that the owner railroad no longer uses it, but the foreign railroad
continues to use it. It's just concrete block but functional, with an
Amtrak ticket agency, heated and air conditioned and a lot nicer than
having no station at all.

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